Surface Measurement Of Total Solar And Ultraviolet Irradiance And Ancillary Meteorological Data At The South-West Indian Ocean Solar Network (Ios-Net) Stations

The observational data described in this article are collected at several locations in the South-West Indian Ocean (SWIG). Platforms equipped with radiometers and a weather transmitter, and located over Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, La Reunion and Seychelles islands, are used to measure incident global and diffuse shortwave radiation and incident global UV A + B-band radiation along with air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure and rainfall amount with a sampling frequency of 0.1 Hz. The data are stored as 1-min averages and automatically transmitted to the (LEP)-P-2-ENERGY lab at the University of La Reunion. The dataset is hosted on the website: https: //galilee.univ-reunion.fr, and is uploaded to Zenodo repository. Such a dataset will help in providing information related to solar energy forecasting and assessment for solar energy implementation at a regional and national level in the SWIO. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.